CBI accused of influencing 2G scam witness

A special court has asked the CBI to respond to allegations that it is trying to influence witnesses in the 2G scam trial.

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Mail Today Bureau

New Delhi

November 18, 2011

UPDATED: November 18, 2011 11:55 IST

A special court has asked the CBI to respond to allegations that it is trying to influence witnesses in the 2G scam trial.

Special CBI judge O.P. Saini issued notice to the CBI seeking its response by November 23 on a plea filed by Vinod Goenka, a director of Swan Telecom and an accused. "What has surfaced in the evidence of PW 2 (Reliance Group chief A.N. Sethuraman) is alarming and amounts to (influencing) the witness. Action needs to be taken to abort this unhealthy practice," Goenka's counsel wrote in an application.

Sethuraman had told the court that two days before the 2G trial began, a CBI officer had called him over 10 times to persuade him to come to the agency's office, but had not made an entry in the reception register.

"This was done in the name of refreshing his memory," Goenka's counsel said.